The 2025 High-Quality Development Forum for Listed Companies is held in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on Oct 29. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

The 2025 High-Quality Development Forum for Listed Companies took place in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on Oct 29.

The forum brought together representatives from over 600 listed companies, venture capital leaders, and experts to discuss the prospects offered by a new wave of technological and industrial transformation.

Wu Xinming, Party secretary of Nantong, expressed gratitude to all friends who have supported Nantong's growth over the years on behalf of local authorities. He highlighted Nantong's economic and social progress, emphasizing it as a city full of potential, seizing opportunities from the Yangtze River Delta integration.

He said that Nantong is a city of vitality, accelerating the development of new quality productive forces and aiming to establish itself as a modern industrial hub at the forefront of technology. He also said that it is a charming city with a rich cultural heritage, a supportive business environment, and excellent natural conditions.

During the event, academic leaders from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, such as Deng Zhonghan and Zheng Weimin, delivered keynote speeches, along with Li Xunlei, chief economist of Zhongtai International.

In the roundtable forum, Chen Yanbin, president of Easpring Material Technology, Lu Wenchao, president of China Resources Double-Crane Pharmaceutical, together with other guests, shared their insights on the theme "ways to value creation under new quality productive forces".